The Postmodern Joy of Role-Playing Games
Agency, Ritual and Meaning in the Medium
$65.77
- Paperback
258 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2018
Summary
Historian Johan Huizinga once described game playing as the motor of humanity’s cultural development, predating art and literature. Since the late 20th century, Western society has undergone a “ludification,” as the influence of game-playing has grown ever more prevalent. At the same time, new theories of postmodernism have emphasized the importance of interactive, playful behavior.
Core concepts of postmodernism are evident in pen-and-paper role-playing, such as Dungeons an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781476664934 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1476664935 |
| Author: | René Reinhold Schallegger, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Imprint: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 258 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Studies in Gaming |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
“In this groundbreaking study, Schallegger argues that critical and scholarly study of role-playing games (RPGs) reveals crucial insights about how collaborative participation in storytelling contributes to cultural progress…. required reading…essential”—Choice; “pulls out key concepts of postmodernism as well as basic stories of play and games and maps them against tabletop roleplaying…I could easily see this being used as a highly serviceable text”—The Green Man Review.
René Reinhold Schallegger
René Reinhold Schallegger is an associated professor for British-, Canadian-, and game studies at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria). Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.
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